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For many of my searches DDG seems to completely ignore one or more of my keywords, usually giving me something more popular but less relevant. Almost every time
by hrnnnnnn 2y ago
For many of my searches DDG seems to completely ignore one or more of my keywords, usually giving me something more popular but less relevant. Almost every time when I try the same search on google it works.
- theyeenzbeanz 2y agoI get the opposite effects on google. As an example, I tried to search for the documentation on watcom’s wasm assembler. It kept giving me results for web assembly no matter how I modified the query nor the Boolean search operators. To me it’s a symptom of search engines trying too hard to be smart and predictable.
- Aachen 2y agoKeep in mind that if you take only a specific type of searches to Google, in this case the ones DDG struggles with, it may just be that Google is good at that class specifically (like natural language or a query doing well with long literal string matching or something) and that makes it appear more competent while others, using Google all the time, are annoyed by it a lot of the time